Jan Westermann

Jan Westermann has been principal percussionist of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since 2019. He studied with Franz Bach, Peter Sadlo, and Arnold F. Riedhammer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.
From 2015 to 2017, he was a scholarship holder of the Kurt Sanderling Academy at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Since then, he has performed regularly with orchestras from all over Germany, including the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. Jan Westermann plays concerts all over Europe. Tours have also taken him to Egypt, China, Japan, and South Korea.
As a solo and ensemble musician, he appeared as part of Peter Sadlo's percussion ensemble, Sadlo and Friends, and was invited to perform in Daniel Hope's series, Hope@9PM. With the Horenstein Ensemble, he played the world premiere of Christian Jost's Poet's love Recomposed. A recording of it was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2019.
His interest is the charming combination of percussion and electronics. For his performances, he sometimes leaves the concert hall and develops site-specific programs in clubs, for example.